the american federation of government employees organized the event which is just one of about 100 rallies taking place nationwide. amazon publishing is planning to speed up royalty payments to its authors. amazon sent a letter to literary agents saying it will start paying monthly royalties within 60 days of the end of each month every month. authors were typically being paid every three months. we continue our countdown to "co the closing bell" with cheryl casone. ♪ cheryl: shares of broad come are chipping, get it, higher or today after a new report. let's head back to nicole at the new york stock exchange. one pun, nicole, just one. >> reporter: right. well, this is a big deal here for broadcom, and we're going to take a look at several of the names in the industry. broadcom is up about a half of 1%. but there are some interesting reports out. so the new samsung galaxy which everybody is all hot on that the s4 uses a broadcom chip rather than an nxt part. this is according to nfc times, they confirmed it in a column. and what's interesting, they're saying that the broadcom chip is be